Nader's Raiders Try to Storm Bill's Gates

By

James Taranto

Updated Nov. 18, 1997 11:59 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON--If there's one industry that doesn't need government regulation, surely it's computer software. After all, computer programs don't pollute or cause cancer; they don't injure anyone when they crash; and if they undermine public morals, they do so under the protection of the First Amendment.

So what's Ralph Nader, the most zealous regulator never to collect a government paycheck, to do? Find a villain, that's what,...